badgerbag: (action grrl)badgerbag ([personal profile] badgerbag) wrote,
@ 2008-05-16 09:17 am UTC
Sent email to F.R. (cc-ing my co-worker) - heavily edited but still an open declaration of "This Means War" to the building owner.

I wish now that I had not engaged directly, but had skipped right to reporting (anonymously) to Code Enforcement and asking them to inspect the building.

How easy to follow the little pressures - I think about the banality of evil - this is so minor - but the un-minor part is the pressures & constant feeling that doing nothing is much easier - I can't express this well but there is something terrible in the doubts & self justifications and feeling of powerlessness and acceptance of an answer. What I think is, where in my life is this bigger and I am not facing it? Where should I be resisting, for real? War - politics - race & gender - the schools right here & disjunction especially of race & class (white/latino) that I was digging into but stopped b/c of health & laziness.


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2008-05-16 06:22 pm UTC (link)
Particularly in Calif., the media disdain showered on the bold folks who are willing to file multiple complaints has evangelized the direct approach, which has a high personal cost. Those aren't "little pressures," but a constant drumbeat of "How dare those people actually enforce civil rights laws!"

Connecting with Code Enforcement means you don't have to bear all the weight of that scorn. The drawback to filing complaints with municipal authorities is sometimes you have to educate *them* first, but usually the learning sticks until the bureaucrat turns over.

Yeah, Liz, coping with ill health is a job in and of itself. The very thing that you're dealing with steals the energy to engage it. not laziness!
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2008-05-16 06:42 pm UTC (link)
Well I am feeling better enough now to deal with things again! It is very lucky!

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